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    The Dangerous Book of Dinosaurs: Are You Ready to Come Face-to-Face with a T-Rex?
    The Dangerous Book of Dinosaurs: Are You Ready to Come Face-to-Face with a T-Rex?
    The Dangerous Book of Dinosaurs: Are You Ready to Come Face-to-Face with a T-Rex?
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    The Dangerous Book of Dinosaurs: Are You Ready to Come Face-to-Face with a T-Rex?

    By Liz Miles

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    Find out everything you need to know about dinosaurs in this action-packed guide to prehistoric life. Bursting with fantastic facts, punchy statistics and eye-catching images, this book provides a thrilling and comprehensive introduction to dinosaurs for kids aged 7+.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArcturus Publishing
    Release dateOct 18, 2019
    ISBN9781838578831
    The Dangerous Book of Dinosaurs: Are You Ready to Come Face-to-Face with a T-Rex?

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      The Dangerous Book of Dinosaurs - Liz Miles

      DINOSAUR PLANET

      An asteroid streaks through the sky toward Earth where it will wipe out the dinosaurs (p.20).

      The dinosaurs were a group of reptiles that ruled the Earth for over 160 million years. They ranged from giant hunters, such as Spinosaurus (SPINE-oh-SORE-us) to tiny speedsters, like Compsognathus (comp-sog-NATH-us).

      Plant-eating dinosaurs were in constant danger from savage meat-eaters. Some dinosaurs, like hadrosaurs (HAD-roh-sores), roamed in herds. Others, like Euoplocephalus (YOU-oh-plo-SEFF-ah-luss) were most likely solitary.

      Some of the best known and most frightening dinosaurs, such as the fearsome hunter Tyrannosaurus rex (tie-RAN-oh-SORE-us REX), and the horned Triceratops (try-SEH-rah-tops), stalked the Earth during the Cretaceous period.

      OTHER PREHISTORIC MONSTERS

      The dinosaurs may have ruled the land, but they were not the only creatures to call the prehistoric Earth their home. They lived alongside insects, mammals, and other reptiles.

      During the dinosaur era, terrifying pterosaurs (flying lizards) ruled the skies, while the oceans were filled with fantastical sea monsters – aggressive reptiles, monstrous squid, and giant sharks.

      Then, mysteriously, about 65 million years ago, all the dinosaurs, together with many other creatures, suddenly died out.

      CHANGING EARTH

      THE STORY OF OUR DYNAMIC PLANET

      Earth today is very different from the place where dinosaurs once roamed. Our world may seem unchanging, but it is in fact in a constant state of gradual change. The planet’s surface is made up of huge plates that float on a mass of molten (liquid) rock. Over millions of years, the plates slowly move, causing continents to shift, mountains to rise, and oceans to grow and shrink. Fossils show us that the land masses were arranged very differently in prehistoric times.

      RED-HOT PLANET

      Four and a half billion years ago, Earth had no land, oceans, atmosphere, or life. Pounded by meteorites, it became hotter and hotter until most of it was molten. But slowly, gas from inside leaked out, and an atmosphere formed. About 3.8 billion years ago, oceans began to appear.

      DAWN OF LIFE

      About 3.5 billion years ago, most of Earth’s surface was a vast, shallow ocean. It was here that the first simple, single-celled life forms emerged. More complex, multi-celled life wouldn’t evolve for another 2 billion years.

      AGE OF THE DINOSAURS

      Land masses slowly emerged. When the dinosaurs first appeared about 225 million years ago (in the Triassic period) all the continents were one giant land mass, or supercontinent. By the time the dinosaurs died out (at the end of the Cretaceous dinosaurs died out (at the end of the Cretaceous period, 65 million years ago), the land had split up into continents that look familiar to us today.

      THE MODERN WORLD

      Today’s Earth is still changing. The continents are still moving, species are becoming extinct, and new species are evolving.

      TIMELINE

      OF LIFE ON EARTH

      Scientists have divided the billions of years of prehistoric time into periods. Dinosaurs lived in the Triassic, Cretaceous, and Jurassic periods, while modern humans evolved in the Quaternary period.

      PRECAMBRIAN

      4,570–541 million years ago (mya): The first life forms appear. They are tiny, one-celled creatures.

      CAMBRIAN

      541–485 mya: Life forms become more complex.

      ORDOVICIAN

      485–443 mya: Arthropods (creatures with exoskeletons) rule the seas. Plants colonize the land.

      SILURIAN

      443–419 mya: First creatures on land.

      DEVONIAN

      419–359 mya: First insects, fish now dominate the seas.

      CARBONIFEROUS

      359–299 mya: Reptiles first appear, vast forests cover the land.

      PERMIAN

      299–252 mya: First therapsids (ancestors of mammals) evolve.

      TRIASSIC

      252–201 mya: First dinosaurs.

      JURASSIC

      201–145 mya: The largest dinosaurs evolve.

      CRETACEOUS

      145–65 mya: Spinosaurus and T. rex evolve. Dinosaur extinction.

      PALEOGENE/NEOGENE

      65–2.6 mya: Many giant mammal species emerge

      QUATERNARY

      2.6 mya–today: Woolly mammoths roam the Earth, modern humans evolve.

      TODAY

      UNDERWATER CREATURES

      The ancient seas teemed with life millions of years before the dinosaurs stalked the land. The first creatures to live in the oceans were single-celled life forms. They were followed by strange, multi-celled organisms. These gradually evolved into scary-looking marine creatures that crept, burrowed, and hunted for food.

      FIVE-EYED MONSTER

      The palm-sized Opabinia (O-pa-BIN-ee-ah) had five eyes and lived in Cambrian seas. It may also have spent a lot of time burrowing into the mud on the seabed to hunt for worms. Its long proboscis (an organ extending from its face) had grasping spines.

      TOP PREDATOR

      Anomalocaris (A-nom-ah-lo-CA-ris), which means abnormal shrimp, was a large and dangerous predator. It searched for prey with its two compound eyes (each with thousands of lenses) on stalks. Up to 2 m (6 ft) long, it would have been a terrifying sight. The

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